emerald crab

[Freckles]

I bought some of those really tiny reef safe crabs yesterday, along with a really tiny emerald crab to eat my bubble algae. He is cute, too. I have not seen him since yesterday though, when he was crawling underneath the rock. Do they hide?

[Mrs Smith]

Yep. You won't see much of him.

Danielle

[OodleyBoodely]

I keep 3 in my 55 and I do see them on a regular basis, but, they don't hang around in the open. Mine are usually half hidden under rocks or coral busily scaping algae from the rocks. I've had better luck with this group of crabs-they have been model citizens so far, but, my first emerald went back to the lfs for eating everything I didn't want him to.

[hooked]

I have 2 emerald crabs and I can count on seeing them every morning when I get up. My basement is pitch black at 6 am so when I go down to feed the cat I get to see them moving around. Soon as the lights go on they stop moving to see if I see them . If the know I am on to them they go and hide .

[Junkzoo]

just my 2 cents,,, in my experience, i had 3 three emeralds in my 75 for hopefully bubble algae control,,, not sure if they ever ate bubble, but after my wife figured out that the reason the candycane corals in the tank were looking "bad/dying" due to her watching the lil buggers munch and pull apart the polyps, plus the fact that she also saw one "de-plume" her favorite feather duster . needless to say i had to remove darn near all of the LR to get them removed, only to give my clown trigger in my 180 FO a live food treat,,my wife said." better to get rid of $5 crabs then watch them eat up $$$$ worth of coral. bottom line , not every thing is 100% a sure thing as far as it goes,,i'm sure there is a lot of good clean up crew member in our reef tanks, just stressing the fact that nothing is a sure thing. good luck